Fashion Week in Milan, London and Madrid, Taylor Swift performs at the Brit awards, Arizona snow suspends golf tournament, mass funeral in Quetta, continued violence in Syria and more in today’s daily brief.

A model presents a creation from Agatha Ruiz de la Prada’s Fall/Winter 2013 collection during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Madrid. (Juan Medina/Reuters)

A model gets made up backstage during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Madrid. (Juan Medina/Reuters)

A model has her make up applied backstage at the Roksanda Ilincic show during London Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2013/14 at The Savoy in London, England. (Stuart Wilson/Getty Images)

Model Karolina Kurkova walks the runway at the Yamamay show during Milan Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2013/14 at the Alcatraz in Milan, Italy. (Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)

Boys wear costumes ahead of the Jewish holiday of Purim in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood. Purim, which will be marked next week, is a celebration of the Jews’ salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Book of Esther. (Baz Ratner/Reuters)

The 18th green is covered in snow as play was suspended during the first round of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship golf tournament in Marana, Arizona. Play was suspended at 1807 GMT because of driving rain and snow in the opening round of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship on Wednesday. (Matt Sullivan/Reuters)

Taylor Swift performs on stage during the Brit Awards 2013 at the 02 Arena in London, England. (Matt Kent/Getty Images)

U.S. singer Taylor Swift performs during the BRIT Awards, celebrating British pop music, at the O2 Arena in London. (Dylan Martinez/Reuters)

A Vietnamese man from the Pa Then minority group jumps into a fire during a ritual ceremony at the Vietnam Ethnic Minority Cultural Village, outside Hanoi. The tribe with a population of 5,000, which resides in mountainous areas bordering China, organizes the annual fire-jumping ritual for adult men at the end of the harvest season. They believe that jumping into a fire without any protection will help them gain more special energy from God to challenge life’s difficulties and fight evils. (Kham/Reuters)

Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. enters the U.S. District Federal Courthouse in Washington. Jackson, son of the famed civil rights leader, plans to plead guilty to charges filed on Friday accusing him of misusing $750,000 in campaign funds, his attorney said. Jackson’s wife, Sandi Jackson, has also agreed to plead guilty to a related charge of filing false tax returns, according to her attorneys.(Gary Cameron/Reuters)

Oscar Pistorius stands in the dock during a break in court proceedings at the Pretoria Magistrates court. “Blade Runner” Pistorius, a double amputee who became one of the biggest names in world athletics, was applying for bail after being charged in court with shooting dead his girlfriend, 30-year-old model Reeva Steenkamp, in his Pretoria house. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)

A Free Syrian Army fighter runs for cover during the firing of a mortar towards the Presidential palace in Ghouta area in Damascus. Three mortar bombs landed in the grounds of a presidential palace in northwest Damascus on Tuesday, Syrian activists said. (Mohammed Abdullah/Reuters)

A Free Syrian Army fighter helps a family after a jet missile hit the al-Myassar neighborhood of Aleppo. (Muzaffar Salman/Reuters)

A Syrian girl cries following an explosion in the northern city of Aleppo. The UN says at least 70,000 people have been killed in the near two-year conflict, and puts the number of Syrians who have fled their homeland at more than 850,000. (Mauricio Morales/Getty Images)

An internally displaced Syrian refugee child has a hair cut at a makeshift barber shop at the Azaz refugee camp along the Syrian-Turkish border. Some 15,000 refugees, mainly from the northern regions of Syria are living in this camp with no running water or electricity, in winter temperature that drop to under zero centigrade at night. (Chris Huby/Getty Images)

Shi’ite Muslims carry coffins of victims killed in Saturday’s bomb attack, during a funeral in Quetta. Pakistani Shi’ites agreed to bury those killed in the most recent sectarian bombing, ending four days of protests, after the government said on Tuesday it had arrested 170 suspects linked to the attack. (Naseer Ahmed/Reuters)

Shi’ite Muslims prepare graves to bury victims killed in Saturday’s bomb attack, during a funeral in Quetta. Pakistani Shi’ites agreed to bury those killed in the most recent sectarian bombing, ending four days of protests, after the government said on Tuesday it had arrested 170 suspects linked to the attack. (Naseer Ahmed/Reuters)

A French soldier drives an armoured vehicle in the desert near Bourem, northern Mali. A French-led military intervention launched on January 11 has driven the Islamist rebels in Mali from the towns they controlled, but concerns remain over stability amid suicide attacks and guerrilla fighting. (Pascal Guyot/Getty Images)

Security guard Oumar Tiemoko poses for a picture in front of the Askia Tomb in Gao. (Joe Penney/Reuters)

A fisherman stands on a fishing canoe at the port in Gao. (Joe Penney/Reuters)

A Palestinian throws a stone towards Israeli soldiers during clashes at Hawara checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus. The hunger strike of four Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails has fueled anti-Israel protests in the occupied West Bank over the past several weeks. (Abed Omar Qusini/Reuters)

A demonstrator tries to pass a riot police cordon during a 24-hour general strike in Athens. Greece was hit by a new strike on February 20 called by leading unions against unrelenting austerity in the recession-weary nation ahead of an audit by international creditors, disrupting flights, ferries and hospital services. The strike — the first general work stoppage in debt-crippled Greece this year — has forced airport authorities to scrap or reschedule dozens of flights while hospitals were operating on reduced staffing. (Aris Messinis/Getty Images)

A man stands atop a rock as he looks at a fishing trawler that ran aground at Sydney’s Cronulla Beach. Attempts to remove the trawler have so far been unsuccessful after it ran aground early on Monday morning, with four crewmen, all from Indonesia, being rescued, local media reported. (David Gray/Reuters)

Aronde, a Normande cattle breed chosen as the official mascott of the next Paris’ International Agriculture Fair in Croix-Mare, northwestern France, three days before the opening of its 50th edition that will run until March 3, 2013. (Charly Triballeau/Getty Images):

A cow is attached to a BMW car in Qingdao, Shandong province. The driver of a damaged BMW had tethered the cow to his vehicle to express his anger towards a garage which he believed not only aggravated the damages to his car, but had also refused to compensate him for it. (China Daily)

Striking Indian auto-rickshaw drivers play carrom amid their vehicles at an auto stand during a two-day strike called by trade unions opposing the current UPA government’s economic policies in Bhubaneswar. Millions of India’s workers walked off their jobs on Wednesday in a two-day nationwide strike called by trade unions to protest at the “anti-labour” policies of the embattled government. (Asit Kumarstrdel/Getty Images)

U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden (R) and Attorney General Eric Holder (L) give the Medal of Valor to Angela Miller, widow of fallen Pennsylvania State Trooper Joshua D. Miller, during an event in Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC. Vice President Biden presented the award to public safety officers who have exhibited exceptional courage, regardless of personal safety, in the attempt to save or protect others from harm. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

People holding up suitcases gather on Masaryk Square in Zabreh, central Moravia, Czech Republic, for an attempt to bring a record number of suitcases to one place. 579 people with suitcases came to the place to honor Czech adventurer, traveller and gold digger Jan Eskymo Welzl. The record will be officially registered in the Guinness Book of Records. (Radek Mica/Getty Images)

Michael Hepburn (L) of Australia leads the men’s team pusruit to gold during day one of the UCI Track World Championships at Minsk Arena in Minsk, Belarus. (Michael Steele/Getty Images)

A coach rides down the rowing course during day two of the New Zealand Rowing Championships at Lake Ruataniwha in Wellington, New Zealand. (Hannah Johnston/Getty Images)

Nico Rosberg of Germany and Mercedes GP in action during day one of F1 Testing at Circuit de Catalunya on in Barcelona, Spain. (Paul Gilham/Getty Images)

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